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Jeffrey Birnbaum
Managing Editor-Digital The Washington Times
Watch Birnbaum's most recent appearances on Washington Week
Jeffrey Birnbaum joined The Washington Times as Managing Editor of Digital in 2008. Birnbaum formerly worked as a columnist and feature writer at The Washington Post from 2004-2008. He is an award-winning author and television commentator. Prior
to that he spent seven years as the chief of Fortune magazine's Washington
bureau and two years as a senior political correspondent for Fortune’s
sister publication, Time. Before joining Time in 1995, Birnbaum worked for
The Wall Street Journal for 16 years. His last job at the Journal was as
White House correspondent. On television he is a political analyst for Fox
News Channel and is a regular panelist on Washington Week. On radio,
he serves as a commentator for the national business show, Marketplace, and
also appears on Fox News Radio as an analyst and occasional substitute host
for The Tony Snow Show.
Birnbaum is the author of four books. His latest, The Money Men, examines
campaign fund-raising and was published in 2000. His first book, Showdown
at Gucci Gulch, was written with Alan Murray in 1987. This classic
chronicle of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, won the American Political Science
Association's coveted Carey McWilliams Award in 1988. In 1992, Birnbaum's
second book, The Lobbyists, was a Washington Post best seller. Madhouse,
Birnbaum's third book, about President Clinton’s White House, was published
in 1996.
A native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Birnbaum is married with three
children. He graduated as an English major from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1977.
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